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Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

When we show up, we win.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Shut up, hissy kitty!

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

The words do not have to be perfect.

“But what about the lurkers?”

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The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

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You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

We still have time to mess this up!

No one could have predicted…

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

White supremacy is terrorism.

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Respite Thread: I Fell Down Like A Domino

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It all started here:

and then I fell down the domino well and I went here:

and then I ended up here:

Not only do I find the falling dominoes mesmerizing, I find the sound of it soothing. And I can use all the soothing I can get these days.

Random notes: Today we are getting the USAF Thunderbirds flying over the entire Front Range- starting at the Air Force Academy to the WY border.  Also: I made Four Layer Bars (photos and recipe here).

How y’all doing? What keeps you going? I’m reading four different books at the moment, I have a few shows to catch up on (What We Do In The Shadows just premiered season 2!) and then I’ll be watching snow melt. Big day here.

Okay, I’m off to watch more dominoes fall…

Respite open thread

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  1. 1.

    Tom Levenson

    I am trying to finish reviewing the page proofs for Money for Nothing–which is now due out in August (pushed from June).

    It’s a) a great feeling to reach this stage and…

    b) terrifying. Any stupidity I don’t catch now gets locked between hard covers.

    That’s the day–about 100 pages more of text, and then another 100 of apparatus to look over.

  5. 5.

    zhena gogolia

    Sigh. I “clicked to refresh” in order to get the Visual window, and lost a whole long comment.

    I guess I’m answering the “desert island” question posed by BGinChi a while ago. I’m compulsively re-reading Jane Austen before bed. Sense and Sensibility down, starting Mansfield Park. I tried to start Trollope’s The Duke’s Children, but I didn’t have the patience for a lot of horse stuff and another tiresome raffish hero. Maybe After the Pandemic.

    We watched the first hour of the special ALW Phantom of the Opera on YouTube last night. We may or may not watch the rest tonight. The story is very thin! But Sierra Boggess is fantastic.

  7. 7.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    I’m alternating between reading Megan Whalen Turners THICK AS THIEVES and reading through a draft I set aside a couple of years back to see if it can be salvaged. The contrast is instructive.

  8. 8.

    MattF

    Falling dominoes are a huge rabbit hole, although I haven’t personally encountered any huge rabbits.

  9. 9.

    laura

    Word on the street is that Fiona Apple released a fresh recording “Fetch the Bolt Cutters” I’ll be giving it a listen or two today while weeding and climbing laundry mountain.
    I cut up a chicken, parted it out and chucked it in the freezer and then made a stock barely simmering for half a day with the back a carrot/onion/celery and a cigar of parsley sage rosemary thyme bay leaves and a garlic clove. The stock is so aromatic and so wobbly and gelatinous and we’re having a hard time deciding what exactly to make with it.

  10. 10.

    planetjanet

    Needing a change of pace, I tried a new recipe Asian chicken lettuce wraps.  Did not have water chestnuts, but I added fresh red pepper and a lot of ginger.   Pretty easy to make.  I have been eating mostly salads for a month and need to shake things up.

  12. 12.

    Leto

    USAF Thunderbirds flying over the entire Front Range

    Oh man, the best aeronautical team flying today! I never get tired of watching them. Very jealous :)

  13. 13.

    Josie

    We scored 2 lbs of pork tenderloin in our HEB delivery.  I found a recipe for cooking it in the slow cooker with sweet potatoes, tomatoes, brown sugar, and cinnamon. I am anxious to see how it turns out.

    ETA: Still working on my novel in fits and starts.  It is really hard to keep my concentration while herding a four and a two year old.  I have seen Frozen 2 seventy-eleven times.

  14. 14.

    CaseyL

    I am gobsmacked.  I had no idea there were so many techniques, formats, and “trick” effects in dominoes.  Plus, a great way to teach/demonstrate Newtonian physics!

    Tell you what, though:  I’d hate to be part of the cleanup detail.

  15. 15.

    TaMara (HFG)

    @CaseyL: The best thing I learned was that they leave out key pieces while they are building, in case there’s an “accident” the entire thing won’t collapse, just a section.

  18. 18.

    WaterGirl

    @zhena gogolia: Yeah, that sucks, I did that once, too.  Trick for next time?  Select all and copy your comment before you hit the button to get the visual window back. Then paste it in text mode, then hit the visual tag.

    I’ll see about putting  a note there to let people know that when it refreshed the page you lose anything you had already added.

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    @Mnemosyne: I love that one!  I even added the link to one of the threads in the sidebar, a couple of weeks ago, for kind of an “in case of emergency, break glass” situation where we need something super cute with no effort to find it.

  26. 26.

    Miss Bianca

    @zhena gogolia: On the other hand, horsey stuff and raffish heroes are right up my alley right now, so yay for being able to find this on Project Gutenberg!

    Which I’ve been using to read my way through the Sabatini catalog – Omnes Omnibus and I got started comparing Sabatini notes the other day, he mentioned St. Martin’s Summer, and then someone else mentioned Mistress Wilding, neither of which , it turned out, I had read before. So I had fun with those.

  28. 28.

    zhena gogolia

    @leeleeFL:

    That’s this version — they’re making it available on YouTube until Sunday morning 9:00 AM ET. Every week a different ALW film gets put up from Friday 2:00 PM British time and stays there for 48 hours.

  31. 31.

    zhena gogolia

    @Miss Bianca:

    I read Scaramouche many years ago (and I lived in a place at Yale that had “He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad” carved over one of the doors). It was fun and I love the movie.

  34. 34.

    eclare

    I’ve been trying to think of what I can do to help my neighborhood during this time, and I think I have it.  There is a very good, hip, and trendy Italian place within walking place distance.  I’ve been a few times, but usually I look at myself and think nah, jeans and a t-shirt will not cut it, I won’t stop by.  Well, now they have limited curbside pickup!  So I think I’ll order from there every other week, to help them survive.

    Tonight I will have watermelon salad, spaghetti with house made sausage, and one of their specialty cocktails while I watch the big concert.  Win!

  36. 36.

    trollhattan

    @eclare:

    Nice ‘hood!

    The restaurant/microbrewery/winery/specialty shop fatality list coming out of this will be mindboggling. Some sectors I expect could approach 50% failures.

    Happy to to my tiny part helping keep however many in bidnez as I can, even places I’m not necessarily wild about.

  38. 38.

    LuciaMia

    Needed a little fresh cabbage for a recipe. But since theres no such thing as a small head of cabbage, theres lots left over. So think Ill try making my own sauerkraut. Oh, the excitement.

  42. 42.

    mrmoshpotato

    Today we are getting the USAF Thunderbirds flying over the entire Front Range

    Why?  Excess fuel?

  46. 46.

    Bruuuuce

    @Ruckus: As I write this, there’s a John Prine livestream tribute show going on. The bits are 20 minutes; currently playing is Sara Jarosz, with the really big names starting at around 6:30 Eastern time:

    6:30 p.m ET – Shinedown’s Zach myers
    6:40 p.m ET – John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats
    7:00 p.m ET – Kevin Morby
    7:20 p.m ET – Colin Meloy of The Decemberists
    8:00 p.m ET – Grace Potter
    8:20 p.m ET – Norah Jones
    8:40 p.m ET – Warren Haynes

    Good way to spend a few hours.

  48. 48.

    debbie

    @Ruckus:

    My local NPR broadcast this two-hour tribute to John Prine last night on American Routes. It was wonderful, and I was lucky no neighbors were around to hear me singing along loudly to every song.

  49. 49.

    J R in WV

    @laura:&nbsp

    The stock is so aromatic and so wobbly and gelatinous and we’re having a hard time deciding what exactly to make with it.

    My very late vote is to save some of that lovely-sounding broth for Chicken-and-Dumplings — a comfort meal my Grandmother was a master at producing, with fluffy yeasty, floating on air, dumplings on a delicious chicken stew,

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